Time is a great leveler and this prejudiced rubbish by Ayesha Siddiqa in January of this year stands completely exposed. The COVID -19 pandemic has...
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The other day as I criticized the authorities stopping Mama Qadeer and Farzana Majeed Balouch from leaving the country on social media, a retired army officer...
Radicalism is like a live wire running through the state and society. It produces violence often when required as was obvious in Pakistan’s case. Apart...
What does it mean to mourn the death of 132 children, and the 9 adults tasked with protecting them? One month on, the tragedy that should have paved the...
Posts by some militant outfits on social media about Iran indicate the presence of an ideological lobby inside Pakistan, which opposes improvement of...
On Sunday, November 2, more then 50 people died in Lahore at the hands of a suicide bomber. The TTP and Jundallah hurriedly claimed responsibility for the...
ایک انٹیلی جنس ایجنسی کی رپورٹ کے مطابق نواز شریف حکومت نے اپنے لئے فضا بہتر بنانے کے لیے پاکستان کے مایہ ناز صحافیوں میں بیس کروڑ روپے کی رقم تقسیم کی اور یہ...
پاکستان کےشہر لاہور میں ماڈل ٹاؤن کا سانحہ جہاں نواز شریف، شہباز شریف اور رانا ثنااللہ کے حکم پر ڈاکٹر طاہر القادری کیپاکستان عوامی تحریک کے چودہ سے زائد افراد...
The current Operation Zarb-e-Azb by the Pakistan army against the Taliban is being viewed in black and white terms by a section of Pakistan’s “liberal”...
میں جب بهی دیوبندی تکفیریوں کےساتھ دیوبندی مکتبہ فکر کے انتہائی اہم ترین مدارس کے انتہائی جید اور فاضل علماء کے تعلقات اور سرپرستی کے بارے میں لکهتا ہوں تو...
نوٹ: طارق علی قادری منهاج القرآن یونیورسٹی کی فیکلٹی آف شریعہ کے طالب علم ہیں انہوں نے روزنامہ آج میں فصیح الدین نامی کسی دیوبندی کا مضمون پڑها تو اس کا...
In Pakistan, it’s our own radicalism that produces religious hatred and violence – by Ayesha Siddiqa
A few days ago, Pakistani newspapers published results of a PEW opinion poll for 2013 and 2014 indicating a large percentage of Pakistanis being...
Zahid Hussain goes to great lengths to show ISIS is very different from Punjabi Taliban Takfiri Deobandi Sipah e Sahaba or the TTP. Zahid Hussain is maligning...
A few days ago I chanced upon some writings of Bina Shah explaining the intricacies of feudalism. Her key point was that people must separate the wheat...
“Both journalists, Raza Rumi and Hamid Mir, who have been recently attacked were either somewhat careful in their discourse or quite vague in...
Why and who felt the need to unearth and launch Khawaja Asif’s speech from 2006? – by Ayesha Siddiqa
The writer is an independent social scientist and author of Military Inc. Ever wonder why and who felt the need to unearth and launch Khawaja Asif’s speech...
The writer is an independent social scientist and author of Military Inc. In an opinion piece written recently on the attack on a Hindu temple in...
The News on Sunday (TNS): How does the government’s approach to counter terrorism through talks look like to you — a compromise, a time buying tactic or you...
The magazine, Hello!, has just published a special edition for Pakistan highlighting a list of ‘Hot Hundred’ — profiles of 100 Pakistani icons ranging from...
The young leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party recently announced the Sindh festival which is to be held in February 2014 in Thatta and Mohenjo Daro. The...
ISLAMABAD — The July 3 coup that ousted Egypt’s first popularly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, reminds us that military putsches can happen anywhere. Egypt...
A recent report in the Times of India (TOI) titled “ISI has infiltrated US think tanks, Pak scholar says” has opened an interesting debate about the Pakistani...
عائشہ صدیقہ کی سچ بیانی اور بوزنے عائشہ صدیقہ نے ایک ٹویٹ کیا جس کی بنیاد پر “ٹائمز آف انڈیا “میں ایک آرٹیکل شائع ہوا-اس آرٹیکل میں انہوں نے...
Context: Ejaz Haider, a blogger at Express Tribune and former director of Islamabad-based thinktank Jinnah Institute was criticizing Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa’s...
LUBP condemns systematic bullying of Pakistan’s prominent anti-establishment scholar Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa by pro-ISI journalists and thinktanks via social...
Note: We are cross-posting from Kafila an interesting article by Dr. Siddiqa on Pakitsan’s real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain. We are glad that Dr...
Naya Pakistan, an old fable Source: Based on excerpts from Kafila There is the ideal scenario that the Imran Khan ‘tsunami’ sweeps the elections. Although, it...
LUBP Editor’s note: Zaid Hamid took money directly from the ISI. Ejaz Haider took money via the Jinnah Institute. One of them is more clever. Tiff...
The writer is an independent social scientist and author of Military Inc. The idea was to gather in a coffee shop in Islamabad and discuss ways civil society...
Future tense Asif Ali Zardari is a past master at brokering deals but will find it tough to save the PPP from electoral oblivion BUT DON’T you think we are...
LUBP Editor’s note: In the following article published in Express Tribune, Dr Siddiqa notes that the PML-N government was not always soft on ASWJ-SSP-LeJ...
“LeJ’s ideology is to strengthen a Sunni state” — Defense and security analyst Dr Ayesha Siddiqa By Farah Zia The News on Sunday: In a recent study that you...
ANOTHER 80 Hazara-Shias were killed in Quetta in a suicide attack on 17 February. This is not the first or the last attack against the Hazara-Shia community in...
There is no indication that the dark night of Takfiri terrorism is about to lift its heinous shadow from Quetta’s Shia Hazara. Are 40 days enough of a respite...
Related post: Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with Deobandi leader of banned terrorist group Siph-e-Sahaba This paper looks at militancy and radicalization in Punjab –...
Here we are seemingly in an age of intellectual freedom, burgeoning media industry and literature festivals. There are numerous festivals held all over South...
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